Display rack



Oct. .15, 1929. c. A. BRUNING 1,731,610

DISPLAY RACK Filed March 31, 1928 C/ar'ehce fl; EPA 07129 A tlor ne y Patented Get. .15, 1929 i NTD STATES CLARENCE A. BRUNING, OF COLFAX, WASHINGTON DISPLAY RACK Application filed March a1, 1928. Serial No. 266,254.

ments in display racks which while adapted for displaying various articles, are especially designed for use in displaying wreaths, bouquets, symbols fashioned from out flowers, and other floral displays. The rack is particularly designed for use at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies, where floral decorations are used, and it is necessary and desirable that the flowers be displayed in artistic and symmetrical arrangement. The invention contemplates the use of one or a plurality of units together with means whereby desired numbers of unitsmay be com- 5 bined as a rigid supporting structure upon which all of the floral decorations may artistically be supported in orderly arrangement instead'of being laid upon the-floor,

chairs, or promiscuously deposited in other available places.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangement of parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated one complete embodiment of my invention and shown several different forms including a plurality of units to illustrate the combinations andarrangements of parts involved in the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the units resembling an easel;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view partly in section of one of the telescopic joints between units;

Fig. 3 is a detail View showing in side elevation one of the hangers or hooks used to,

connect together a plurality of units;

Fig. 4: is a detail view at the forked or bifurcated upper end of one of the rear braces of a unit, which brace is also used in supporting a plurality of units;

Fig. 5 is a view in elevation of a pair of vertically arranged units secured by the telescopic joints;

Fig. 6 is a view showing a cruciform arrangement of two units;

Fig. 7 is a view showing four units connected together in Figs. 7 and 8.v

lcllig; 8 shows an arrangement of five units; an j Fig. 9 shows another arrangement offour units. 7

The units are preferably fashioned from wire of suitable size and the parts of the units are welded or brazed together at intersections or fixed joints, the wire being light in weight but strong and durable for the performance of its functions.

Each unit, which as shown in Fig. 1, may be used as an easel, comprises two'side posts 1, 1, with two parallel spaced intermediate rods 2, 2. A number of cross bars3, are socured by weldingor brazing at their intersections or joints with the side bars or posts and the intermediate rodsshow that these elements will form a rigid rectangular structure adapted to be supported in substantially upright position. 7

Each of the units is provided at one end with a pair of sockets 5 that are brazed or welded at complementary ends of the side posts 1, 1, and these sockets form telescopic extension joints which receive complementary ends of an adjoining unit. Thus two units may be joined and used in upright position as indicated in Fig. 5, or two units may be joined by their telescopic extension joints and used in horizontal position as indicated A single unit may be supported similar to an easel, or when the units, are combined the I whole structure may be supported by one or more rear braces 6. This brace has a forked or bifurcated upper end 7 and a chain 8 is anchored to the brace at 9. The free end of the chain may be passed around one of the cross bars 3 as at 10 in Fig. 1 and the chain is thus fastened to the cross bar in order to prevent spreading of the rear brace when the latter is used to support the rack in upright position. I

In connection with the rack, I employ a suitable number of removable floral hangers 11. Each of these hangers is provided at its upper end with'a pair of double, oppositely arranged hooks 12 and 13 that are designed. to hook over and under the posts, cross'bars, or rods of'a pair of racks that are being fas-"ioo tened together, as indicated in Fig. 3. The double hooks are designed to connect together the elements of different units of the rack and at the lower end of each hanger a hook 14 is fashioned upon which the'fioral decorations may be suspended. These hangers are spread over the rack and located at suitable points for the purpose of connecting the units of the racks as well as for supporting or suspending the floral decorations. The hangers of course are separable and removable, and they may be separated from the rack when the latter is disjointed or dismantled after having performed its functions.

Various shapes may be given to the racks as indicated in the drawings and the rack.

may be assembled with facility in proper shape to support or suspend the floral decorations.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- A display rack comprising a plurality of easel-units, telescopic extension sockets at one end of each unit to provide joints with an alined unit, removable floral hangers having a pair of upper oppositely arranged hooks for fastening adjoining units, and braces for the rack having forked upper ends to engage a portion of a unit.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CLARENCE A. BRUNING. 

